Foxes

Last night I just happened to look out my window and I couldn't believe what I saw. A fox was just happily trotting along my street like it was the most natural thing in the world. It was broad daylight too.
At first I thought it was a dog that wasn't on a leash then I realised it was a fox I couldn't believe my eyes. I've spoken to a few people and it seems foxes are becoming quite bold these days. Has anyone of you seen foxes just roaming along?

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Foxes are all around us I see evidence of this all the time.
The half eaten lamb in the field, the footprints in the snow leading from dustbin to dustbin, the piles of fox poo containing bones and damson stones which my dog loves to roll in, the scent of fox down the lane where it's path crosses mine daily, the old sick fox eating rotting apples in the orchard in the day time, the young fox I see daily when I walk my dog.
Many people just don't get to see the the signs

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I thought they were usually nocturnal creatures which is why I was so shocked to see one in broad daylight. I've never seen one in 'real life' before.

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I live in West London and urban foxes are more common on our streets now than offlead dogs. We live next door to a graveyard which is home to quite a few - the noise during mating season is unbelievable. The strangest thing is that our dogs (huskies with a very high prey drive) totally ignore the foxes. Cats, squirrels, rats, birds - they go mad when they hear them in the graveyard. Foxes - no reaction at all. These cubs were born last year and their den was right next to our fence:

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great pics Mick, thanks for sharing

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I have always though of foxes as being crepuscular meaning primarily they hunt during dusk or dawn.
However they are also opportunist scavengers and will take food when and where they can find it particularly when rearing cubs.
I frequently see them out in the countryside during the day and practically walked into one crossing the lane. I don't know which of us was most shocked

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Something odd occurred today. The lady nextdoor was cutting her grass and shouted to hubby - she was holding something in her hand. It was an egg - had to be a chicken egg, far too large for anything else. She found it buried in a hole in the middle of her lawn!
If it had been an acorn or peanuts, obviously it would have been a squirrel but a whole egg - can only have been a fox, surely? We have two scrawny cubs visiting lately - maybe mammy or daddy haven't taught them how to eat their eggs yet

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...yes possibly a Fox years ago my Uncle a farmer came home for lunch crossing a neighbours field containing 4 ducks which were being reared for meat. When he went back to work the ducks had gone, all that could be seen was the feet sticking out of the 'foxes larder', the newly ploughed field .

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A few years ago, my mum used to feed the foxes that came into her garden, she'd just leave bits out for them. She was amazed the one morning, after not seeing the foxes for a while, when she opened the curtain on the patio doors, there was one of the foxes and she'd brought her cubs with her! Mum said that they looked so cute and polite, she went and got them something to eat.

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Foxes are losing their fear of humans - no doubt about that. The trouble is, that as they become bolder, they get into trouble of all sorts, with the inevitable conclusion for the fox and its victim.

Gwyn